Art + Culture Two Napoleons in Brooklyn, One in Timberlands Feb. 13, 2020 The Brooklyn Museum has hung Jacques-Louis David’s “Bonaparte Crossing the Alps” alongside an adaptation by Kehinde Wiley. It’s a face-off between two visions of the political power of art. »
Art + Culture HOW TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL FASHION CREATIVE REPRESENTATION FIRM Feb. 7, 2020 The Impression sat down with two leading creative representation agencies – Steven Pranica of CXA and Massimiliano di Battista of M&A Creative and to hear what shifts in their business have taken place to ensure viability in the next decade. »
Art + Culture studio drift’s ‘EGO’ is a handwoven object capable of changing shape and state Jan. 28, 2020 studio drift presents ‘EGO’, a large-scale moving block, handwoven from 16 kilometers (10 miles) of reflective japanese fluorocarbon. »
Art + Culture CREATIVE PRODUCER POLINA ZAKH DOESN’T DESIGN FOR INSTAGRAMMABLE MOMENTS Jan. 24, 2020 On Sila Sveta and Giving Drake’s Scorpion Tour a Dose of Rave Culture »
Art + Culture Sila Sveta’s Jumbotron Takeover for The Times Square EDITION Jan. 24, 2020 The public-facing video projects, projected on Jumotron billboards on the corner of 47th Street and Broadway, meet pedestrians with captivating videos that pay homage to the late Alexander McQueen’s 1999 fashion show. »
Art + Culture Sila Sveta for Drake’s “Scorpion” Tour Jan. 24, 2020 Creative director Willo Perron they landed with a project for Drake’s tour “Scorpion” - a huge challenge led to 15.6Tb of material and a panic half year of work to release 7 consecutive shows in NYC. »
Art + Culture Studio Drift Reconnects Humanity to the Environment With Immersive Installations Jan. 20, 2020 Using technology to mimic natural phenomena. »
Art + Culture Studio Drift Isn’t Afraid to Ask Really Big Questions Jan. 9, 2020 Designers Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta founded their Amsterdam-based design studio as a way to reflect on our increasingly complex world—ten years later, their work is more relevant than ever. »
Art + Culture Kehinde Wiley’s glorious portraits of 21st-century Dalston women in Walthamstow Jan. 8, 2020 Kehinde Wiley: The Yellow Wallpaper (22 February-25 May), is billed as the first solo exhibition of new work shown by Wiley at a public institution in the UK, and also the first to feature exclusively female portraits. »
Art + Culture Who Was the Most Influential Artist of the Decade? We Surveyed Dozens of Art-World Experts to Find Out Jan. 3, 2020 As the turbulent and event-filled 2010s come to an end, we asked more than 100 artists, curators, gallerists, and other art-world figures to tell us their picks of the most influential art and art-makers of the decade. »
Art + Culture Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley Jan. 3, 2020 The works by David and Wiley reveal how race, masculinity, power, and representation layer onto portraiture and shape the writing of history. »
Art + Culture Kehinde Wiley on Richmond monuments: ‘The answer to negative speech is positive speech’ Dec. 12, 2019 A monument of a young African-American man has found its permanent Virginia home near the Confederate statue it was modeled after. »
Art + Culture Naomi Campbell Fetes Launch of A Magazine Curated by Pierpaolo Piccioli Dec. 5, 2019 The creative director of Valentino takes up a camera for the first time to document his collaborators for the biannual fashion magazine. »
Art + Culture Swizz Beatz and Kehinde Wiley Are Inspiring Tomorrow’s Artists Nov. 21, 2019 The two artists join forces for a Creative Minds Talk during Art Basel Miami Beach in support of Black Rock, the artist-in-residency program launched by Wiley in Senegal. »
Art + Culture Maripol and Kelly Cutrone on Andy Warhol’s ’15 Minutes’ Prediction Nov. 19, 2019 "Artists see the future," says Maripol, the polaroid photographer famous for capturing '80s New York club culture. "The good ones," she clarifies, seated next to PR icon Kelly Cutrone at Polaroid's Soho Pop-Up Lab where they're talking about Maripol's work and legacy. »
